Vintersea‘s new era has officially begun with the below debut of their track “Celestial Abscission“. Earlier this month the PNW-based progressive metal band announced their new vocalist, with Kayla Dixon (Witch Mountain/Dress The Dead) replacing Avienne Low.
Today (October 15th) saw the release of that above-mentioned single, with Dixon stating:
“Abscission means to detach. Romain Rolland, in his letter to good friend Sigmund Freud, described a new discovery of his via his recent meditations-“A feeling as of something limitless, unbounded, as it were-oceanic”. This quote felt perfect to include as in interlude before the song kicks in hard.
The purpose of this song is to bring the topic of spiritual narcissism up for discussion. Recurring themes of ego and ego death (or abscission) have been ever present in my life. My aim with these lyrics is to expose and discuss the misuse of the word “ego” and to shed light on how easily this word can be thrown around and used to infiltrate the minds of the already humble, stripping away what little self-esteem they had left.
Does carrying an oceanic feeling of detachment from day to day life and an awareness of our ultimate mortality advance us as individuals and as a society at large? Or is this one cause of the apathy we see in the world? …and what does your ego-self have to say about it?”
The group’s own bassist Karl Whinnery once again oversaw the directorial duties for the below music video:
